Hey guys, thanks for checking out this Bible teaching.

Every week release a podcast that corresponds to the sermon. It's like a little bit of a deeper dive, where we hit some things that didn't make it into the sermon, some theological concepts. We talk about things that are going on in our culture and how to think about them from a biblical perspective. We call that podcast Live Free. An episode releases every Monday that corresponds to the sermon. If you would like to check

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We'll see you at Live Free. Now, enjoy this Bible teaching. Wow. So grateful. Thank you.

Thanks for the warm welcome. Let me just say right off to bat that I love Josh

Howardton and I'm so grateful for him. His friendship has meant a lot to me through the years. And

when God planted this church years and years ago, he had so much more than the Dallas-Fort Worth

area in mind. He had more than Texas in

mind. He had the nations in mind. And what God is doing in and through your church, I want to say

thank you to you, is remarkable that he literally has used you to have a rippling effect in the

life of people across the ocean. And just the way you're just really doubling down on global missions even

is just impressive and I'm just so grateful for you. And so God gets the glory, but I want to honor

you and honor Pastor Josh and just say thank you so much for just what you're doing.

Stay at it. I'm going to preach one verse if you don't mind. And so if you are here tonight on a Saturday night and you're kind of already disappointed that Josh Howardton is not preaching today. That's okay. Just go ahead and continue to lower your expectations even more. You're not going to get the deep end of the pool here. You're going to get something really, really simple tonight in that we're going to camp out at one verse. And I know that you are studying together

the book of Luke. And we're going to touch base. This is going to be tethered to Luke 9, 12 to 17.

But before you get there, all right, I want us to look at this one verse, which is John

635. And so if you would, go with me to John 635. And while you're going there, let me just

kind of tee it up by telling you that a guy named Charles Pergin years ago labeled this verse

that we're going to study together, fighting words.

He called them fighting words because when Jesus makes the statement that we're about to read,

the people who heard him decided that it was time for them to fight back and to silence him.

When Jesus made this statement, Spurgeon actually also calls him bloody words, he made a statement that

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